optimistic - Story 97728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the dusty windows of the garage, illuminating motes of dust dancing in the air. Liam hummed, pushing aside boxes filled with forgotten tools and sporting equipment. He had a mission: to understand his grandfather better.

He found it, tucked inside a worn briefcase. A letter. His grandfather's handwriting. A letter of resignation from a teaching position. Dated 1974. A smile spread across his face.

He pulled up a stool, eager to discover the reasons behind his grandfather’s decision. The day felt brimming with promise.

Emotion: optimistic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 4.44 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.49

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion optimistic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 optimistic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the optimistic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the optimistic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.856
`la`	0.688
`!`	0.601
`enthusi`	0.530
`🤩`	0.515

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.891
`😞`	-0.504
`L`	-0.486
`ness`	-0.478
`それでも`	-0.432